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April 21, 2017 Thomas J. Perrelli

Tel +1 202 639 6004
Kenneth McGair TPerrelli@jenner.com
Office of the City Attorney
1221 SW 4th Avenue Room 430
Portland, OR 97204

Dear Mr. McGair:

This letter is in response to your letter of April 11, 2017, seeking additional information
regarding Ubers use of Greyball technology in Portland, as well as the questions propounded by
the City in the March 15, 2017 letter to Uber. Pursuant to our discussions since those letters, this
letter provides information concerning both the period before April 2015, during which Portland
had no Transportation Network Company (TNC) regulations in place, and the period after
April 2015, when Portland implemented its pilot project and its TNC regulations. Pursuant to
our separate agreement, the information in this letter and the documents provided herewith will
be treated as confidential.

As we noted in our letter of April 7, 2017, our review to date indicates that Uber did not use the
Greyball technology with respect to regulators in Portland at any time during or since the
implementation of Portlands TNC regulations and pilot program in April 2015. Our review has
continued since that letter, and our conclusion remains unchanged. We are continuing our
review and will inform the City if that conclusion changes.

Additional Background on the Greyball Technology

At the outset, to avoid any confusion, we believe it would be beneficial to provide additional
information regarding the manner in which the Greyball technology operates on the Uber app.
Although the term gained prominence with reference to its possible use with respect to
regulatory authorities in the referenced New York Times article, the term and the technology are
used in a host of ways that we do not believe trigger the concerns raised by the City.

Within a particular market in which Uber operates, Uber typically employs what is, in essence, a
standard view that is shown to users or groups of users, such as a standard view for UberX in
Portland. However, for a variety of routine and proper business reasons, including marketing,
functionality, the safety of Ubers driver-partners, and similar reasons, at times Uber desires to
display a different view to a user. For example:

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x When a local sports team is successful, Uber may desire to hide the standard view in that
teams market, and replace it with a view that shows cars that bear the logo of the
successful team.

x To test a new functionality, initially on the accounts of Uber employees, Uber may desire
to hide the standard view for the employees in the testing group, and replace that view
with one that displays the new functionality.

x In some markets in which Uber operates, where driver-partners may be subject to threats
of physical violence, Uber may choose to hide the standard view from individuals
determined to pose a threat to Ubers driver-partners, and replace that view with one that
decreases those individuals ability to cause harm.

In these and similar situations, in order to hide a standard view, Uber may apply a Greyball
tag to the account for which the view is to be hidden. A Greyball tag, in Ubers technology, is
the technological instruction that causes the standard view to be hidden and then allows the
system to display a different view, often referred to as a vehicle view, such as a view that
contains a sports team logo or a new feature being tested or, in the case of a user who violates
Ubers terms of service (as in the case of physical threats), limiting or otherwise altering the
display of vehicles.

While the use of Greyball technology varies from market to market, as some markets use other
technological approaches in their marketing and promotional efforts, greyballing refers to a
technological instruction that can be used for a variety of purposes.

Our investigation to date indicates that Uber used the Greyball tag exceedingly sparingly in the
City of Portland and removed all tags in April 2015 and has not used them since. Details of
that usage are set forth below and in the documents provided with this letter.

Additional Information in Response to the Citys Inquiry

We understand the Citys focus in this inquiry to be, first, on the application of Greyball tags to
government employees engaging in official enforcement or oversight duties because of their
official duties. Second, based on your April 11 letter, we understand the City to be interested in
whether Greyball tags were ever applied in order to interfere with the rights of consumers with
disabilities or consumers who desire wheelchair accessible service.

Responses to the questions propounded on March 15 are contained in the attachment to this
letter. With respect to the additional issues raised in the Citys April 11 letter, Uber would like
to provide a number of confirmations:

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